Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy).
The language committee needs to verify the language is eligible to be approved.
Check that the project does not already exist (see list).
Ensure the requested language is sufficiently unique that it could not exist on a more general wiki.
Ensure that there are a sufficient number of native editors of that language to merit an edition in that language.
This proposal is on hold:
The language is valid, but marking it as waiting because there are two issues: One is that the request creator doesn't actually plan to write in this language any time soon, and the other is that it's unclear how different this language is from Hindi. When there is proof that the language is unique, as the Language proposal policy requires, and when there is activity in the Incubator, the language may become eligible. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Amire80 (talk) 2024-11-07 (UTC)
The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads
no
Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons.
If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin"). Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces
For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings
Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.
There's two problems here. First, you've created four requests for new projects, and the other three are for Magahi. A user requesting that many projects or for multiple languages isn't helpful; a project needs at least one solid native speaker to make a good start, not someone work on multiple projects. Second, while Braj is certainly a language that can have a Wikipedia, it's a hard project to start. Indian languages don't have the success languages in richer parts of the world have; e.g. Hindi, fourth largest language in the world, has fewer Wikipedia articles than Slovenian or Georgian. It's also a Western Hindi language that frequently gets conflated with Hindi and doesn't seem to be standardized. Unless one of those two conditions change, making a useful Wikipedia is going to be a huge amount of work.--Prosfilaes (talk) 17:03, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
